Inspired by Cory Booker, Republicans Create Ironic Web Petition

YouTube clarification non-withstanding, Cory Booker’s public relations problem has only intensified since this morning. In response to the Newark mayor’s now effectively retracted statement that ad hominem negative campaigning of the private-equity-centric and Jeremiah Wright–centric varieties are “nauseating,” President Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod characterized Booker as “just wrong” in an NBC interview.

Meanwhile, the ever Web-savvy Republican National Committee launched an “I Stand with Cory” petition. Per said petition: “Yesterday New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker, a surrogate spokesman for the Obama campaign, called the president’s attacks on the free market ‘ridiculous.’ That’s right Mr. President, we aren’t going to let you destroy free enterprise. Stand up for America. Stand up for job creators.” That’s right: American job creators such as. . . the person whose idea it was to do this petition and hire a colorblind time traveler from 1997 to make the Web site.